Spirituality, music, and wellbeing : sharing insights from an Australian setting Dawn Joseph 2014, Spirituality, music, and wellbeing : sharing insights from an Australian setting, International journal of health, wellness and society, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1-14. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Spirituality, music, and wellbeing : sharing insights from an Australian setting Author(s) Dawn Joseph orcid.org/0000-0002-6320-900X Journal name International journal of health, wellness and society Volume number 4 Issue number 2 Start page 1 End page 14 Total pages 14 Publisher Common Ground Publishing LLC Place of publication Champaign, Ill. Publication date 2014-09-27 ISSN 2156-8960 Keyword(s) spirituality music wellbeing singing community interpretative phenomenological analysis Summary The relationship between spirituality, music, health, and wellbeing is gaining much theoretical and research attention globally. These related concepts are complex and involve many facets and challenges. This paper explores the relationship between music and spirituality as a way to communicate actively with God, which interconnects with wellbeing and quality of life. The focus of this paper discusses one case study from my wider research project “Spirituality and Wellbeing: Music in the Community” that started in 2013, in Melbourne (Australia). Having gained ethical clearance, case study methodology (interviews, documents, and observation) was employed. For this paper, I only offer a discussion of semi-structured interviews with volunteer participants from an Anglican Church in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne (Australia). Using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), I analyzed and codified the interview data to explore the lived experience of the participant’s perception and how they make sense of it. As IPA is phenomenological, it takes into the account my own ideas through a process of interpretation when analyzing the phenomena under study. The interview data are reported under two overarching themes: music and spirituality and music and wellbeing. The data provides insights into the various ways music contributes to participants’ spiritual journey and growth. I argue that music is a powerful vehicle that connects people with God and others as it fosters an enhanced sense of spiritual growth and self-wellbeing. Language eng Field of Research 220405 Religion and Society 139999 Education not elsewhere classified 169999 Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 950101 Music HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30066211 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Education Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Sat, 27 Sep 2014, 16:22:44 EST Sat, 27 Sep 2014, 16:24:01 EST Mon, 29 Sep 2014, 09:03:35 EST Thu, 09 Oct 2014, 14:01:22 EST Thu, 09 Oct 2014, 14:03:14 EST Thu, 09 Oct 2014, 14:04:20 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 699 Abstract Views, 3 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Sat, 27 Sep 2014, 16:22:38 EST by Dawn Joseph